AUSTIN, Texas — A controversial conference is set to be held on the University of Texas at Austin campus this weekend – and some students aren’t happy about it.
The Natal Conference will take place Friday from 5-9 p.m. and all day Saturday, with panels at both the AT&T Conference Center and the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. This is the movement’s second-ever conference after the first was held in Austin last year.
Reports show that this year’s conference features speakers with ties to eugenics – the pseudoscience theory that certain genetic traits are better than others for human evolution – and other racist rhetoric.
What is the Natal Conference and who is involved?
The conference is hosted by Natalism.org. The movement claims that humans “are living through the greatest population bust” in history and promotes increasing humans’ birthrate…